Ham Radio Challenge Week 17 - find your closest repeater.

Closest is a semi-private low power AllStarLink node on UHF a few blocks away, two VHF repeaters (#W8RP and #W8UM) with active nets, and the odd UHF to 10 meter band repeater also #W8UM .

Line of sight if you are up high enough are a UHF and a VHF repeater on a county tower, the VHF (#N8DUY) can be heard in a 10-county area plus parts of Canada.

A good guide is from #W8SRC

https://www.kb6nu.com/the-kd8lwr-repeater-guide/

#hamchallenge
@hamchallenge HC17S

Monitoring the ARROW #W8RP and UMARC #W8UM Ann Arbor repeaters and tossing out my call sign every now and again after the repeater IDs itself, hoping that @kb6nu will be listening.

The W8RP and W8UM repeaters I can hit pretty easily from my comfy chair, and my Quansheng is charging while it's monitoring, so really no extra effort.

1143Z

#RTTY Roundtable de #K8WXQ on the 146.92 #W8FSA repeater Ypsilanti MI (St Joes tower) #EN82

via email via ARROW #W8RP

To All
We will have the Monday 170Hz Shift 60WPM RTTY Roundtable at 7PM Local Time on the 146.92MHz Repeater.
We had 3 Stations on last week.
I will call CQ at 7 PM and if nothing heard, I will just go into RX Mode.
Hope to see some Stations check in.
73's Al K8WXQ

Sat in on the ARROW #W8RP club board meeting tonight, hosted by James #AE8JF

A good bunch of folks with some pretty good ideas about how to improve the experiences of new hams through testing, training, education, field events like the monthly AMPteam radio in the park outing, weekly nets on FM, DMR, and (hopefully soon) RTTY, and the upcoming #AACME maker event at the Ann Arbor District Library.

ARROW #w8rp sticker

https://flic.kr/p/2pBKFyH

Looking forward to what will be a regular #RTTY net on the #W8FSA 146.92 repeater in Ypsilanti (St Joes). Al #K8WXQ is net control. The first scheduled net was yesterday 2024-03-04, the next one is next Monday 2024-03-11 at 700p Eastern.

This starts 60 minutes before the #ARROW net on #W8RP 146.96 Monday nights 800p.

When I did this last I used #DroidRTTY to encode/decode, will be looking for RTTY software that can run on my MacBook Air (either MacOS or iOS worth a try).

#date20240311

The ARROW Monday night net starts at 800p on the #W8RP 146.96- repeater, located atop Wolverine Tower in Ann Arbor.

I'm planning to activate Esch Park AA-048 for tonight's net. The test will be whether I can do QRPp or QRPpp operations on 2 meters - WoTo is very close, nearly line of sight. My Kenwood TH-22AT low power setting is something like 50 milliwatts.

https://localwiki.org/ann-arbor/AA-048

cc @w8tam

#notpota #pota #aa048 #w8rp #EschPark

Outing today to Brighton State Recreation Area for the 2023 Winter Field Day from the ARROW club operating as #W8RP . We were at the Wegawas rustic cabin operating 2I MI - one voice station, one CW station.

In addition to Winter Field Day there was #POTA activity - look for spots on K-3384 (and you know I don't see that on https://pota.app/#/profile/W8RP so maybe something else is going on).

https://w8rp.org

https://flic.kr/p/2odUoL1

#WFD